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Article: Katharine Goodland. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to "King Lear.(Book review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- March 22, 2007
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Katharine Goodland. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to "King Lear." Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 254. $94.95.
The most innovative element in Katharine Goodland's capable study of female dramatic mourning lies in its willingness to trace the continuity from secularized presentations of mourning in Renaissance drama, back to the laments of the Virgin to the medieval cycle plays. For while a number of excellent studies have been done about Renaissance cultural trauma as a product of the radical changes of the Reformation, few of them give much attention to the elaborate scenarios of death and mourning ...